Tattarrattat:
This word, appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary, was invented by James Joyce and used in his book Ulysses (1922).
This is an imitation of the sound of someone knock on the door.
This is the longest palindromic single-word in English.
Ulysses is a modernist novel
by Irish writer James Joyce.
Parts of it were first
serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to
December 1920, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2
February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday.
It is considered one of the
most important works of modernist literature and has been called "a
demonstration and summation of the entire movement."
According to Declan Kiberd,
"Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of
thinking.
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